The Gospel News
sure we do our work diligently without being a stumblingblock to those who hear our message of salvation.
Here is a challenge and a duty for us to perform before our Lord returns to establish the kingdom. We must do our work with open minds and without fear of telling the world how important it is to believe in God and His son Jesus Christ. We must not feel comfortable that now we are baptized we will be saved, but continue doing the Lord?s work throughout our lives and let only death separate us from the Lord?s vineyard. When we die in Christ Jesus, we must not be sad but rather rejoice together knowing that we are merely sleeping awaiting resurrection and God?s reward of eternal life.
Some readers will live in societies where it seems materialism and postmodern indifference to the Bible is almost over- powering; our message seems almost doomed to rejection. But God?s word doesn?t return void; there are some who are increasingly searching for meaning in the coldness of our postmodern world.
KIM is one of them; a Norwegian, raised atheist in an atheist household, living in an affluent and intensely materialistic society. But Kim bravely followed where our natural search for God leads us- to the Bible. And after many years of trying to work it out, came to the right conclusions. Kim says he has spent hundreds of hours watching our presentations on YouTube and looking at other internet resources. But all that time he made no contact with us. We have a few thousand people looking at our videos on YouTube each month, quite apart from websites. We never know who they are... but who knows how many other people out there are looking for the Truth and carefully analyzing
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our material in great depth? Kim finally contacted us via a Facebook group.
We usually report baptisms of asylum seekers and refugees in Scandinavia, driven by their plight towards the Lord Jesus. But here is a local Norwegian driven by the spiritual plight of this modern world to come out of atheism, to be deeply impressed by the argument for creation, the power of Bible prophecy and the compelling logic of the true Gospel- and thus come to the Lord Jesus.
With joy we met with our brother and baptized him in a swimming pool in Kristiansand. His testimony, part in English and part in Norwegian, is from the heart and a triumph of God, His Son and His word over the emptiness, apathy and ultimate boredom of this age in the Western world. You can hear our brother on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eem5OI KHbE8
Please pray for our brother in his relative isolation, and for all those other people, unknown to us but known to the Lord, who are likewise piecing together the Truth doctrine by doctrine but are shy to come forward. Here?s our new brother in the cafe of the swimming pool after his baptism: